The Great Sea SerpentMysterious and strange are the ocean depths, but pioneering cyptozoologist ANTOON CORNELIS OUDEMANS (1858-1943) attempted to bring some order to the realm with this 1892 survey of the reports of monsters of the sea, the first of its kind. Gathering sightings from around the globe and across the centuries, Oudemans eliminates the obvious hoaxes or honest mistakes and then, from dozens of legitimate sighting, draws conclusions about sea-serpent physiology, geographic distribution, and more. This astonishing book "still influences thoughts and theories about the great unknowns in the oceans," says cryptozoologist Loren Coleman in his new introduction in this edition, part of Cosimo's Loren Coleman Presents series. |
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... readers what is commonly called " a falsehood " , for in the whole book there is not one " formal and solemn account ” in which there is question of " white and black colours " which " were variegated ” , of a “ tail ” which “ lashed ...
... readers what is commonly called " a falsehood " , for in the whole book there is not one " formal and solemn account ” in which there is question of " white and black colours " which " were variegated ” , of a “ tail ” which “ lashed ...
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... readers the figure of this skeleton , which I have found in the Wochenblatt für das Christliche Volk of 1878. The description of this skeleton in full particulars is given by Prof. Wyman in the above mentioned American Journal . I will ...
... readers the figure of this skeleton , which I have found in the Wochenblatt für das Christliche Volk of 1878. The description of this skeleton in full particulars is given by Prof. Wyman in the above mentioned American Journal . I will ...
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... reader will afterwards get acquainted with Prof. Owen's suggestions ; it is not now the right moment to enter into them ; I will only observe that Mr. Newman also wrote the following last word : " The London papers have repeated all ...
... reader will afterwards get acquainted with Prof. Owen's suggestions ; it is not now the right moment to enter into them ; I will only observe that Mr. Newman also wrote the following last word : " The London papers have repeated all ...
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... readers : -The different fishing establishments on the shore of this extensive bay , extending from the Old Head of Kinsale to the Seven Heads , have been within the last few days abundantly supplied with fish of every description , and ...
... readers : -The different fishing establishments on the shore of this extensive bay , extending from the Old Head of Kinsale to the Seven Heads , have been within the last few days abundantly supplied with fish of every description , and ...
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... readers of the Zoologist ' . " " Dear Sir , I reply to your note relative to the Sea - Serpent , there is not one word of truth in the statements put forward in the newspapers : there is no such person as Roger W. Travers , but there is ...
... readers of the Zoologist ' . " " Dear Sir , I reply to your note relative to the Sea - Serpent , there is not one word of truth in the statements put forward in the newspapers : there is no such person as Roger W. Travers , but there is ...
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The Great Sea-serpent: An Historical and Critical Treatise Anthonie Cornelis Oudemans No preview available - 2007 |
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Page 96 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him haply slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind, Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Page 96 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Page 218 - Thus Satan talking to his nearest mate With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood ; in bulk as huge As whom the fables name of monstrous size, Titanian, or Earth-born, that warr'd on Jove ; Briareos or Typhon, whom the den By ancient Tarsus held ; or that seabeast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean stream...
Page 210 - I have the honour to acquaint you, for the information of my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that at 5 o'clock PM on the 6th of August last, in latitude 24° 44...
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Page 221 - I had never seen his account, or even heard of his sea-serpent, until my arrival in London. Some other solution must therefore be found for the very remarkable coincidence between us in that particular, in order to unravel the mystery. " Finally, I deny the existence of excitement or the possibility of optical illusion. I adhere to the statements, as to form, colour, and dimensions, contained in my official report to the Admiralty, and I leave them as data whereupon the learned and scientific may...
Page 252 - S., long. 35° W., we observed three large sperm - whales, and one of them was gripped round the body with two turns of what appeared to be a huge serpent. The head and tail appeared to have a length beyond the coils of about thirty feet, and its girth eight or nine feet.